Mod of 100 subreddits. There's no way you can effectively act in the interests of all of those communities.

Can't say I'm surprised in the slightest.

Are they actually independent of Reddit Inc? I had assumed a lot of those Reddit accounts moderating a huge amount of subs are actually Reddit employees.

Also those type of Reddit accounts often don't do much actual moderating. They are the reason people complain about top mods that can't be removed, never respond to modmail, etc. & will randomly wake up to make changes to the subreddit whenever they feel like it.